{"id":11159,"date":"2015-05-01T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2015-05-01T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:57:31","slug":"indictments-in-baltimore-and-the-guy-who-hoaxed-limbaugh-bradcast-5115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11159","title":{"rendered":"Indictments in Baltimore &#038; &#8216;BridgeGate&#8217;; And the Guy Who Hoaxed Limbaugh: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/1\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_LarryPfeiffer_Christie_Baltimore_050115.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It was an appropriate end to our first week of daily <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><em>BradCast<\/em><\/a> shows. In a week filled with quickly moving breaking news to keep us on our toes here at BRAD BLOG World News Headquarters, it ended with the breaking news of major criminal indictments in both the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11158\">in Chris Christie&#8217;s NJ &#8220;BridgeGate&#8221; scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After covering both of those, my guest today was Larry Pfeifer, otherwise known as &#8220;Easton Eliot&#8221;, or the man who <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/the-rise-and-fall-of-right-wing-medias-fake-the\/203432\">hoaxed Rush Limbaugh<\/a> and the entire Rightwing media bubble into running with the false story that Harry Reid&#8217;s eye injury was caused by his brother who beat him up over the New Year&#8217;s holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Larry, who says he has never been involved in politics &#8212; he told me he&#8217;s never even voted before! &#8212; explains exactly how the ruse came about, how the wingnuts fell for his scam hook, line and sinker, and why he&#8217;s now created <a href=\"http:\/\/CleanUpTheMedia.com\">CleanUpTheMedia.com<\/a> in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: Bernie Sanders raises a lot of money since announcing his candidacy for 2016; the loss of an R&#038;B legend; and speaking of hoaxes, the NRA&#8217;s latest fund raising scam.<\/p>\n<p>What a week! My thanks to all our fantastic guests this week and to all of our affiliate partners and listeners for your support! If you missed any of this week&#8217;s shows, they&#8217;re all <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\">here<\/a>. We&#8217;re back Monday to do it all again! 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In a week filled with quickly moving breaking news to keep us on our toes here at BRAD BLOG World News Headquarters, it ended with the breaking news of major criminal indictments in both the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,494,89,675,471,594,341,477,188,102,50,551,300,126,307],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-chris-christie","category-election-2016","category-harry-reid","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-maryland","category-new-jersey","category-nra","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-rush-limbaugh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}